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  1. International coverage…

    “The professor would not suggest whether the missing trillions went to some legitimate undisclosed projects, wasted or misappropriated, but believes his find indicates that there is something profoundly wrong with the budgeting process in the US federal government. Such lack of transparency goes against the due process of authorizing federal spending through the US Congress, he said.”

    ‘$21 trillion of unauthorized spending by US govt discovered by economics professor’
    https://www.rt.com/usa/413411-trillions-dollars-missing-research/

  2. Since Wall Street has been creating funds revolving around investing in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, does this indicate to you that they believe these cryptocurrencies will be around for years to come?

      1. Thanks. I guess if Wall Street made billions off of the trading, and then it all came crashing down, they’d still be OK with this.

        1. Yup. Surfers ride short waves and long waves. Sometimes the can not tell if the wave will be short or long.

  3. I see lots of posts about members of the FBI & DOJ belonging to a secret society. How does one become a member of a secret society? Usually they have to be sponsored. A great place to start is in the halls of higher learning. Yes, Colleges & Universities are a great place place for recruitment. Here is an excellent video on that subject put together by Truthstream media.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8xq0djCRk

  4. Just thinking out loud.

    Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) announced that members of the FBI & DOJ are in a “secret society” and were working against Donald Trump.

    It is my understanding that sometimes to belong to a secret society a person has to take an oath to uphold the laws of the secret society. So for a government worker and Congress person who takes an oath to uphold the laws of their office and government and they also belong to a secret society which oath is supreme? The oath to the secret society or the oath to the American government?

    Since I’m on the subject of oaths, how can anyone working in the American government hold a dual citizenship with another country?

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/breaking-thousands-new-strzok-page-text-messages-reference-secret-society-within-doj-fbi-working-trump-video/

    1. Don’t forget Nixon’s very loyal secretary Rose Mary Woods who “accidentally” erased 18 minutes of a conversation between Nixon & Haldeman. I happen to meet Ms. Woods a couple of times and yes the first time I meet her I look down to see if one leg was longer than the other.

  6. I think there is a certain amount of logic, and indeed boldness in Tulsi Gabbert’s statements that suggest North Korea is possessive of its nuclear missile program because if its distrust of US foreign policy. Still, columnist Caitlyn Johnstone, however hiply profane, is illogical in her proposal that some “aggressively enforced” international treaty be created, whereby violators would (one presumes) be subject to military force (essentially up to and including nukes) as part of the enforcement. That doesn’t really move the needle very much from what we have today.

    If it’s distrust of US (read: globalist) policies, perhaps the cheapest and most effective option would be for the US to add those oft-yearned-for, but rarely availing ingredients of transparency and integrity to our domestic and international dealings–on a voluntary basis. It’s the legend we’ve woven into our history books, but by hook and crook, we’ve pulled those threads out of the fabric of what we actually do. If any nation on the planet has the capacity to become ~actually~ ethical and require the same of others, it has to be ours. We might find that we’d become an attractive ally and trading partner if our dealings weren’t subject to processing through various hidden agendae and secret treaties. Most of the early part of my life was marked by pious declarations of our national nobility, even as we were witness to quite another story unfolding, almost frame for frame out of then-contemporaneous Godfather lore

    Priest: Do you reject Satan?
    Michael: I do

    Perhaps making America Great Again could be more than an electoral slogan–what if we made ourselves live up to what we always said we were? A Shining City on a Hill. Remember the Bushies?

    1. For some reason, the editor left out step three of Michael Corleone’s method– Moe Green was assassinated on the masseuse table as the scene changed. The point being, what we say and eclare and what we’re doing simultaneously are sometimes quite different.

      1. More good information about how the economy works in the Godfather series than in all the economics textbooks.

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